4th International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating

Thank you all to those who participated in the 4th annual 2019 International Day of Action (DoA) against contract cheating! We had 132 institutions who participated, and we need your support to break that record in 2020!

Please join us by registering your institution for next year’s event and be sure to check the site regularly for updates! There will be many events including webinars, a contest, social media activities, online and campus planning ideas and much more!

First place goes to Daviotis Panagiotis, Papaliou Anastasi at The American College of Greece-Deree. Congratulations!

Second place goes to Jose Brandon Martinez Chacon at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Congratulations!

Third place is Wen Hao Liang at International College of Hotel Management Adelaide.

Central & South America

Contract cheating

Contract cheating occurs when one person completes academic work (e.g., assignment, exam, paper, test, quiz, exam) for another who then submits it for academic credit. This behavior undermines the quality and integrity of the degree, and it undermines the entire educational system.

According to experts, contract cheating:

accounts for about 1/5 of the plagiarism in papers submitted to turnitin (Newton & Lang, 2016)is a self-reported practice of at least 7% of students (Turnitin, 2013)

is a booming, lucrative business – between 2005-2013, “nearly 19,000 attempts at contract cheating” was made by students (Matthews, 2013)

UK’s Quality Assurance Agency released a report August 2016 about the scourge of contract cheating. It provides more information on the scope and damage of this industry.